Foundations for Inquiry: Choices and Trade-Offs in the Organizational Sciences - Hardcover

Lundberg, Craig; Young, Cheri A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804741530 ISBN 13: 9780804741538

Publisher: Stanford Business Books, 2005

Synopsis

Foundations for Inquiry, a philosophy of social science book, is both a primer and a resource for anyone interested in social and behavioral research. As a "reader" with excerpts from classic and soon-to-be classic writings on research in the organizational sciences, the book shows the myriad choices facing researchers―including assumptions they make about ways of creating knowledge, beliefs and values they hold regarding reality, and philosophical and managerial allegiances they form. This book will give readers the information they need to select among these choices, appreciate the tradeoffs involved, and understand how they affect the ways in which data is collected, analyzed, and interpreted, and in which "truth" is ultimately created.
Most books about research address the "how to" of inquiry rather than the "why." Foundations for Inquiry enlightens readers about the variety of philosophical assumptions regarding inquiry and organizational phenomena, demonstrates how these assumptions shape subsequent choices about theories, and shows how theoretical and philosophical choices consequently shape and guide the research process. Awareness of these choices and tradeoffs enables readers to be more discriminating consumers of, and adept contributors to, research-based knowledge.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"This is an important book that, I believe, should be read and discussed by all students of contemporary organization studies."—ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW

About the Author:

Craig C. Lundberg is Blanchard Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Cheri A. Young is Assistant Professor of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0804741530
• ISBN 13: 9780804741538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552